What a creation.
It brings a smile, a gurn. A dance, a woman. Seduction, sex. Love.
Which song gets the hairs on your neck stand on end?

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
~ Professor Keating (Robin Williams) in "Dead Poet's Society"

nice.
What's your tune, cosmic one?

Beethovens Moonlight Sonata

Lately?

'Its a Good Life if You Don't Weaken'
The Hip, In Violet Light.

'...full of countervailling woes,
diverse as ever scenes,
proceeding on a need to know
with a face so full of meaning,
as to almost make it glow,
for a good life you just might have to weaken,
and find somewhere to go,
go somewhere we're needed,
find somewhere to grow,
grow somewhere we're needed...'

"Ride On" - AC/DC ... one of the most chill, relaxing songs ever. The fact it's by a band whose normally anything but relaxing makes it that much cooler.

"Paint it Black" - The Stones ... even though the lyrics are nihilistic rage, this song just makes me feel happy.

"What a Wonderful World" - Louis Armstrong, or the Joey Ramone cover ... what "Hey Ya!" wants to be when it grows up.

Blind Guardian - Harvest of sorrow
My favorite ballad. So full of emotions, just great.

In Flames - Everlost (part 2)
One of the few slow songs, and the only one sung by a female.

Schandmaul - Ein Stück Regenbogen
A nice lovesong.

Nocturne in E Flat Major by Chopin is absolutely beautiful
Beethovens Moonlight Sonata is nice too
Indeed, life is just not complete without the beautiful melodies and harmonies.
Did you know that listening and appreciating music are done in two different regions in the human brain?

Nocturne in E Flat Major by Chopin is absolutely beautiful
Beethovens Moonlight Sonata is nice too
Indeed, life is just not complete without the beautiful melodies and harmonies.
Did you know that listening and appreciating music are done in two different regions in the human brain?
and even better sitting outside somewhere in the sunshine having a relax with a beautiful woman watching the clouds.
who needs drugs alcohol and tobacco just high on life.
ravels bolero, rachmaninov opus nine on a theme from pagenine.

ravels bolero is one of my favorites. it demands to be played LOUD.

i absolutely adore nella fantasia and can't help singing along (music [opera] was the career my parents didn't approve of- ^ mezzo soprano)

elaborate lives from aida.

lady in red by chris de burgh

i love vide cor meum so much that my ex tried to learn it on violin to play for me. it's a shame it was never made into a full opera.

lately i've been all about talk shows on mute (incubus) and the reason (hoobastank) but they're not part of the permanent collection.

dear god, every messageboard I go to has to include a music thread, from sports to videogames and philosophy boards...I'm not saying it's bad, by all means go for it but I feel it's a strange coincidence

what's the method behind the madness here? :confused:

Jeff Buckey... Lover You Should've Come Over.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon album :)

Molinos de Viento.- Mägo de Oz (it's great, from a spanish band, a must hear!)
You Know My Name.- The Beatles (this song pulls smiles out of me)
My Lost Lenore.- Tristania

A little of everything is good. Also, Ravel's Bolero is a true masterpiece, and for the classics I prefer a little Bach.

Ennio Morricone's score for The Mission, particularly "On Earth As It Is In Heaven" and "Gabriel's Oboe," both variations on the same theme; his arrangement of "Ave Maria Guarani" is my preferred ave; I would love to hear a whole praying of the rosary in that form.

A little-known track from the very odd Savatage, "Believe."

The Beach Boys, "Wouldn't It Be Nice," although my emotional connection to it comes from the passing of Andy Lippincott, some fourteen years ago, in Doonesbury. It would be several years--until Bobby Hill fell in love with a cosmetic-school plastic head--before I could listen to the song without my mood collapsing. The ecstatic, last plea of "Wouldn't it be nice?" was his exeunt, leaving us all to say, "Goodnight, baby."

One of my favorite poseur-machismo songs of all time, one that brings a natural rush, is Monster Magnet's "All Friends and Kingdom Come." It's one of the most sinister songs ever.

And, of course, "Foolin' Yourself (The Angry Young Man)," by Styx might well be my favorite song ever. (Thirty-nine seconds of "The Palm of Your Hand"?! Thirty-nine seconds? You had Brian Wilson in the studio arranging backup vocals to your best song ever and you only give us thirty-nine seconds?!)

And there's a block in the second act of Cats--actually, it's almost the entire second act; "Moments of Happiness," "Gus," and "Growltiger," for sure--perhaps the height of musical storytelling, and also the devastating block of "Macavity," "Mistoffelees," the showstopper ("Memory"), "Heaviside," and "The Ad-dressing."

Lastly, from the album that is perhaps the key to understanding the present phase of my psychospiritual state (Angels in the Flesh and Devils in the Bone), Floater's "Possum's Funeral," and "Endless Ii." Those songs are ... um ... yeah. If only I could show you what those songs do in my head--I could free the world.

Incubus - Just a phase.....possibly the sweetest and saddest guitar composition I have heard.

Rage against the machine - Born as ghosts.....the chorus riff never ceases to creep me out.

-- the last movement from Mahler's 8th Symphony

-- Maria Callas singing "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" from Sain-Saens' "Samson e Dalila" and "Costa diva" from Bellini's "Norma"

<i>Les Preludes</i> - Liszt (got to play timpani on this once...)
<i>9th Symphony</i> - Beethoven
"Won't Get To Heaven (The State I'm In)" - Spiritualized
"The Tourist" - Radiohead
"Under African Skies" - Paul Simon
<i>Kind of Blue</i> - Miles Davis

I'd have to say "Wish you Were Here" by Pink Floyd. It has a beautiful guitar part, and some great lyrics too.

"So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here."

"Take the Long Way Home" by Supertramp.

Rachmaninov piano concerto #2
Barber's Agnus Dei
Beethoven's 2nd

In Flames - Everlost (part 2)

'Dead Eternity' is where its at.


My favorites:

Carmina Burana
Tristan Und Isolde
Lord of the Rings
Anything played on a Harpsichord

Carmina Burana rocks. (Especially the remix ;))
Most soundtracks by John Williams
Enya
Brahms op.103 nr.3 (or was it 1? My ex used to play it on the piano... sigh)

Rachmaninov piano concerto #2


Ah, too shy for Rach. 3?!

Ah, too shy for Rach. 3?!
:eek:*Gasp* But... isn't it blasphemy to say it's name??

Nah ... it's not like I spelled it out.

Personally I prefer his shorter pieces, like the variations.

Shooh, I found them rather boring. :(

Well, I was probably biased when I heard them - they're impressive when you're sitting next to the pianist ;)

Well, I was probably biased when I heard them - they're impressive when you're sitting next to the pianist ;)

Music is written to be played to someone.

If I am setting myself up for a good time and want to just heighten my mood: Steppenwolf
Magic Carpet Ride

Music is written to be played to someone.
No kidding? But how many people can play Rachmaninov while you're sitting propped up against the wall with a cup of hot chocolate, the morning sun glancing off the last dew of the previous cold night, and a good book in your lap... That made the variations stay in my memory. A million live performances and CD's couldn't do that.

Magic

No kidding? But how many people can play Rachmaninov while you're sitting propped up against the wall with a cup of hot chocolate, the morning sun glancing off the last dew of the previous cold night, and a good book in your lap... That made the variations stay in my memory. A million live performances and CD's couldn't do that.

Magic

This is why music is so rare.

On the "Without music" note,
I watched The Last Samurai the other day. The final war scene had the music cut out in parts. It was bizarre to watch the passion of bloodshed and battle without the glorifying music. It was empty; almost disturbing. Then the music cut in, and it kind of made everything alright.

That was a good movie in a way - very artistic and thought-provoking. The idea of honour appeals to me...
This is why music is so rare.
Why we have to make our own music, our own magic, our own luck.

Take a mundane event, add a little beauty, mix in a little wonder, and listen to its music. That's what I call the sound of love.